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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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