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

William James

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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 strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity

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