The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMESNo living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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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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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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