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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

William James

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant

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