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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

William James

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
[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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud

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