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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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