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

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

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

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