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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

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

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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