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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

William James

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMES

Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest

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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