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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical

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