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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy

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