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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

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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 know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

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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