#over

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ↗

— William James

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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. ↗

— William James

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook. ↗

— William James

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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. ↗

— William James

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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. ↗

— William James

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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. ↗

— William James

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ↗

— William James

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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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