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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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 most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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