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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness

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