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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Models Role Virtue
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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 don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History

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