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William James

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself

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