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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social

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