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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

There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical

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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