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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy

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