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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
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
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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