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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success

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