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

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War

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