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Our beliefs are really rules for action.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods

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