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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere

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