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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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