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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear

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