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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
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
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
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration

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