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" A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. "
William James
Think
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" Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. "
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" Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! "
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" To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. "
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" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
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" In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. "
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" There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. "
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" The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. "
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" Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. "
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" If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. "
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" In business for yourself, not by yourself. "
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" 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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" Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. "
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" There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. "
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" The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. "
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" If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. "
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" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "
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" Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. "
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" The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. "
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" Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. "
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" We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. "
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" If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. "
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" An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. "
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