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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical 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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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

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