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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical

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