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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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