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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMES

Blessed Deception Giving Up
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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