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

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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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Discovery Men Mind
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

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