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New habits can be launched.

William James

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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
[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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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 deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological

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