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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth

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