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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

William James

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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

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