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

William James

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men

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