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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

William James

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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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Political Volunteer War
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

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