You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMESTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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