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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

William James

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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Philosophy Way
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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