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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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
[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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men

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