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

William James

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 difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men

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