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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

Accepting Daring Ideas
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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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Choices Differences Men Savage
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda

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