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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES

Life Stay Strong Ties
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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