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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

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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

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