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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

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process

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