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William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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

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