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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
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
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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