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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

William James

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

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