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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

William James

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
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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