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The strenuous life tastes better

William James

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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