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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

William James

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
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
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
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things

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