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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.

William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
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
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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