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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking

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