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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality

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