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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

William James

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion

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