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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

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science

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