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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

William James

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
[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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

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