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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

William James

The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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

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