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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

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
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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

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