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

William James

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility

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