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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Belief Facts
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical

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