Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMESA 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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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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