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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

William James

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

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