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

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy

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