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" If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. "
William James
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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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" Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! "
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" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "
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