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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want

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