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William James

There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

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