There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
WILLIAM JAMESOn pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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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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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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