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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

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