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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
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
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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