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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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 mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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