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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

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows

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