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"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

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MORE QUOTES BY William James

“Truth is what works.”

William James

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”

“Truth is only one way of appealing to reality”

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