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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

William James

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Positive Success
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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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