For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere 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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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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