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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

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