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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

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree

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