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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

William James

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree

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