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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings

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