One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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This Third Psychology is now one facet of a new philosophy of life, a new conception of man, the beginning of a new century of work.
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