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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

William James

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World

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