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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs

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