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

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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use

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