The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMESNo living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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