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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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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Believe Ideas Truth
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth

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