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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

William James

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
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
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
[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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

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