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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good

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