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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.

William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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 know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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

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