"When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will."
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"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
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"This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed."
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"A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him."
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"An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses."
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"Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there."
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"The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances."
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"Act the part and you will become the part."
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"We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone."
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"If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill."
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"First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it."
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"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal."
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"If it works, it's true."
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"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits."
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"There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!""
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"In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome."
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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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"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit."
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"The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature."
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"The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory."
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