If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMESThe teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
More William James Quotes
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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