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

William James

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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