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The strenuous life tastes better

William James

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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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