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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

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational

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