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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do

William James

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do

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