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

William James

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth

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