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

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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
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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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