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The strenuous life tastes better

William James

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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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Believe Ideas Truth
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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