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" To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. "
William James
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" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "
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" Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. "
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" A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. "
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" The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. "
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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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" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "
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" In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. "
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" Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. "
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" To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. "
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" The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. "
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" Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. "
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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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" The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. "
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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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" To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. "
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" The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. "
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" Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference. "
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" Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. "
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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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" 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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" The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. "
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" If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. "
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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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" Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. "
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