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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality

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