If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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New habits can be launched.
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