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

William James

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons

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