The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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