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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive

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