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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anything Dream Everything May
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth

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