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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

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