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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
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

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