"...[T]o consent verbally to do the right thing and then to live and to act without effort to achieve what is right, is ruinous."
"All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks....The body is indeed the servant of the mind."
Joseph B. Wirthlin, April 1982
"Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master....All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
"Vulgarity [now known as pornography] is an expression of arrested development in matters of good taste and good character....Vulgarity weakens the mind, and thus brings all other weakness in its train....It is vulgar to like poor music, to read weak books, to feed on sensational newspapers [or debasing TV],...to find amusement in trashy novels, to enjoy vulgar theatres, to find pleasure in cheap jokes, to tolerate coarseness and looseness in any of its myriad forms....[For] the basis of intemperance is the effort to secure through [thoughts first and then] drugs the feeling of happiness when happiness does not exist. Men destroy their nervous system for the tingling pleasures they feel as its structures are torn apart."
David Starr Jordan
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