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

William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit

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

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