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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order

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