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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
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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Ideas Men Twenties
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely

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