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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.

William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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
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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega

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