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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

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