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That which is most personal, is most interesting.

William James

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
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

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