The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMESA sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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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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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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