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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

William James

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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 aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
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 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
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

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