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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

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