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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

William James

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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