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" Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. "

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" Belief creates the actual fact. "

" If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. "

" To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. "

" Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. "

" We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. "

" Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. "

" Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. "

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" One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. "

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" The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. "

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" If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. "

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" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "

" If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. "

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