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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
WILLIAM JAMES

Choices Differences Men Savage
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
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciate Desire Friendship
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES

Business Inspirational Philosophical
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cash Experience Stream
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Philosophical Positive

… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

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