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The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

— Christian D. Larson Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912)

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It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

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Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

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The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

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When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

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The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

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