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

William James

Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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