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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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