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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

William James

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

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