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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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