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I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

You seem like emotional twins. Pacing works, because like attracts like.

He has discovered that his own brain is both a broadcasting, and a receiving station for the vibration of thought, and he is beginning now to learn how to make practical use of this discovery.

am also trying to emphasize another point, namely, that both success and failure are largely the results of habit!

In fact, there is much evidence to support the theory, that only emotionalized thoughts have any action influence upon the subconscious mind.

It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage—and eliminate negative emotions.

Strangely, the story of this unusual experience was told to the author in the old mill, on the very spot where the uncle took his whipping. Strangely, too, I had devoted nearly a quarter of a century to the study of the power which enabled an ignorant, illiterate colored child to conquer an intelligent man.

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The best recommendation is the one you give yourself by rendering superior service – with the right mental attitude.

those whom you praise will see in you the qualities that you see in them. Your success in the application of this formula will be in exact proportion to your faith in its soundness.

read a biography of Mohammed, especially the one by Essad Bey.

encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage and eliminate negative emotions.

Power goes with penetration. An understanding of the nature of actions is accompanied with the power to meet and deal with all actions in the right and best way.

Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

The epiphany I had in my career in randomness came when I understood that I was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions.

Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

Decentralization is based on the simple notion that it is easier to macrobull***t than microbull***t. Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries.

It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters.

Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.

I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about—and the reader is no fool.

respect for the weak being, after intellectual courage, the second most attractive quality to this author)