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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

William James

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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

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