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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant

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