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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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

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