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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth

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