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William James

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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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 mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda

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