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

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts

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

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