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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

William James

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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
[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
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

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