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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years

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