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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings

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