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

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
[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
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

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