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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
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
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching

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