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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

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Mean Ugly
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Leadership Quality Self
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
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
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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