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

William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way

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