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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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