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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

William James

That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

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