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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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