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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration

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