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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

William James

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
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
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way

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