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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

William James

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMES

Failure Lows Person
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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 total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching

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