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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
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

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