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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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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Happiness Laughter Men

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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