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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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 ‘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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality

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