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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

William James

Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
[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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth

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