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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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

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