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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Philosophical Positive
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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

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