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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

William James

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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