"The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind"
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"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."
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"So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."
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"We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate."
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"We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is."
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"All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods."
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"Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation."
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"To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education."
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"History is a bath of blood."
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"Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality."
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"Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them."
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"Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them."
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"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
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"Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."
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"The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease."
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"If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them."
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"The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated."
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"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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"I will act as if I do make a difference."
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"We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all."
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