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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMES

Deny Neglect Wise
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People

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