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

William James

History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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