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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda

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