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

William James

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

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