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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

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 JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMES

Natural Political Politics
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMES

Good Hell Intention Intentions
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Math Passion Union
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Great Focus Woods
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMES

Hate Inspirational Life
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combine Enough Fact Facts
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMES

Enough Poor Reason
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Discovery Men Mind
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspire Mean Truth
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Extremes Matter

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