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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.

William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality

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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