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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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
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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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