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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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