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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

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