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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

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

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