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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical

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