No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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