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

William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
[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 first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination

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