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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. - William James

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. – William James

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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. – William James

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Attitude
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William James
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. – William James

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Wise Words
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James

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Miscellaneous
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass

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A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. – John Kasich

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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. – Joseph Stalin

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. – Voltaire

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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. – Emile M. Cioran

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Truth comes to us mediated by human love. – A. N. Wilson

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