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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify

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