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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

William James

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
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage

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