Beneficial Quote by William James

“Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.”

William James

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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

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“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered…

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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by 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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It is your friends who make your world.

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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,…

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“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and…

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It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

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Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

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In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation.

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Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . .…

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