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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
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
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
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
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision

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