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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

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