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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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

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