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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

William James

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
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
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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 beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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