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

William James

The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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

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

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