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

William James

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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