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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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