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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

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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Evil Prove Ruling
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking

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