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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Broken Concepts Reality
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Positive Success
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Decision Order Responsibility
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Models Role Virtue

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