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" Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. "
William James
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" To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. "
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" The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. "
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" To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. "
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" 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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" An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. "
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" Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. "
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" A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. "
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" The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. "
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" Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. "
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" Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. "
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" Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. "
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Quality
Whatever
" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "
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" Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. "
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" Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. "
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Copy
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" In business for yourself, not by yourself. "
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Yourself
" 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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Never
" If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. "
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Want
" We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh. "
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Laugh
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" Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. "
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Character
Done
" What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! "
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" No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. "
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" There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. "
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Something
Serious
" Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. "
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Thinking
Think
Merely
" When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. "
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Itself
Make
" 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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" Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. "
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" Truth is what works. "
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" Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. "
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" Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. "
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