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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will

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