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

William James

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical

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