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

William James

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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
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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Pay Quality Supreme
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

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