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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

William James

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

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