The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMESBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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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.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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