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

William James

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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 most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy

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