Quote by William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely r

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. – William James

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Our faith is faith in someone elses faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. – William James

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Faith
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Pure experience is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. – William James

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Experience
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth. – Benjamin Disraeli

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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration. – James Lane Allen

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Im sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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Great is the difference betwixt a mans being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. – Thomas Fuller

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John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded. – Barack Obama

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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. – Rose Kennedy

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