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History is a bath of blood.

William James

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
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 intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical

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