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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

William James

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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

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