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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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 true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties

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