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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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