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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind

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