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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

William James

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort 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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

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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