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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

William James

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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