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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall

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