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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

Accepting Daring Ideas
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Philosophy Way

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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