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William James

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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism

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