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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

William James

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical

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