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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

William James

Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life

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