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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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