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William James

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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work

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