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

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth

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

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