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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

William James

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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

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