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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
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
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
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
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Educational Men Philosophy
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science

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