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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.

William James

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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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