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

William James

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows

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