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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality

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