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

William James

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

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