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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise

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