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

William James

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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
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
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

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