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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth

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