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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.

William James

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
[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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self

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