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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.

William James

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual

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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