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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

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