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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

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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, 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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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