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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
“But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.”
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“But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.”
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
“In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.”
“The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.”
“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”
“Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.”
“Generally, I feel I'm cast aside because of the kind of movies that I make.”
“Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.”
“We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams.”
“You've got to be pretty mean to pick up on women who only know you from television and then cast them aside.”
“I'd always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I'd spent five years knocking on Hollywood's door and had put that idea aside.”
“We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.”