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

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness

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