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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
[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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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