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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking

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