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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

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream

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