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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

William James

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
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
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

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