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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

William James

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs

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