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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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 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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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