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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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

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