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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

William James

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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules

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