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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do

William James

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
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

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do

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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do

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