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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

William James

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding

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