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William James

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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