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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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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Opposites Statement Truth
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground

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