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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

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows

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