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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

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