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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
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 ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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

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