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

William James

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Dream Inspirational
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Briefly Thinking True Way
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
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy

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