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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

William James

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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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