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

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational

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