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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth

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