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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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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Men Mind Way
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive

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