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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success

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