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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

William James

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts

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