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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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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Habit Principles Thinking
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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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Ideas Men Twenties
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

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