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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

William James

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination

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