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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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason

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