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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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