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

William James

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions

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