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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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