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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

William James

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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
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
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy

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