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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Sound Truth
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
WILLIAM JAMES

Choices Differences Men Savage

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