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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James

New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
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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Ideas Men Twenties
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World

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