The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMESEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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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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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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