But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMESNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
More William James Quotes
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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