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William James

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality

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