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

William James

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
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
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.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
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
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self

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