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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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