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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

Accepting Daring Ideas
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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