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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

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