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

William James

Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May

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