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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical

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