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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude

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