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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

William James

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

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