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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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