There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
WILLIAM JAMESTo change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
More William James Quotes
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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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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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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