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

William James

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
[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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste

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