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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success

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