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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks

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