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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

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