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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

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMES

Blessed Deception Giving Up
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
[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
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Laughter Men
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two

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