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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no m

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. – William James

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Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. – William James

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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

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Happiness
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Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. Thats truly about the game, and in some ways thats about life too. – Michael Jordan

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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton

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A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you aint got nothin. – Leo Burnett

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There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all – itll be ten oclock and theyll tell you its nine. Youre looking at the clock and you cant even fathom why theyre lying. They just lie because thats what they do. – John Cusack

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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. – Charles R. Swindoll

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I am against the death penalty. – Andrew Cuomo

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For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. – James Payn

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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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