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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

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