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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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

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