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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life

William James

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy

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