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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

William James

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
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 mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical

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