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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

William James

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive

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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