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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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 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

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

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