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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
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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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties

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