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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.

William James

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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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