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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

William James

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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMES

Chapters Egotism Religion
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process

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