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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

William James

New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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

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