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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

William James

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions

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