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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

William James

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 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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

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