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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

Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall

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