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"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
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"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
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"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."
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"Everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of feeling more or less alive on different days. Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth, but which he might display if these were greater. Most of us feel as if a sort of cloud weighed upon us, keeping us below our highest notch of clearness in discernment, sureness in reasoning, or firmness in deciding. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use."
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
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