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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

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