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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground

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