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

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
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 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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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