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All religions begin with the cry Help.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
[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
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

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