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

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
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

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

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