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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.

William James

The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology

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