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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

William James

Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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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Mind Peculiar Self
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

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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