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

William James

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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