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

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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