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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

William James

Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
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
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
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
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

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