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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

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