There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMESObjective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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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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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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