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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
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.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy

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