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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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