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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

William James

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
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 aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
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
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.
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Law Science Together
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth

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