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

William James

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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