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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship

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