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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

William James

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
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans 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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

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