If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.William James
Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
William James
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
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