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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

William James

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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