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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

William James

Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

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