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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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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Example Human Nature Proud
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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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Destiny Men Tree
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

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