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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMES

Enough Poor Reason
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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