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

William James

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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