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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

William James

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

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