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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mean Men Solitude
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
WILLIAM JAMES

Law Medicine Philosophy
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons

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