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

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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons

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