The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMESTo know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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