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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.

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical

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