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James Boswell
: I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
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Reinhold Niebuhr :
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The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.
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Frederick Bailes :
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Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
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Edward Fredkin s Paradox :
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The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
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Claude Bernard :
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They make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat.
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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.
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How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.
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Everything is practice.
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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.
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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
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James Boswell:
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I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
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James Boswell:
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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
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'Sir,' said Mr Johnson, 'a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.'
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
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The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.
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