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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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 we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

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