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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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

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