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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

William James

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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

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