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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World

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