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William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical

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