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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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 God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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