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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
[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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
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
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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules

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