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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

William James

Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
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
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
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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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