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Our beliefs are really rules for action.

William James

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

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