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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
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
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
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive

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