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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
[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
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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom 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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social

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