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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
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

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