Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
WILLIAM JAMESTrue ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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