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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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