You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMESFear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
More William James Quotes
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Truth happens to an idea
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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