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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy

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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