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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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