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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
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 community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
[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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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