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

William James

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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith

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