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

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
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
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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

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