Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMESWe with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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New habits can be launched.
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