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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

William James

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
[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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

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