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

William James

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules

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