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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

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Truth
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. – William James

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Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. – Pierre Corneille

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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. – Robert Hall

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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. – John F. Kennedy

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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see. – Black Elk

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