Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMESReal 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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History is a bath of blood.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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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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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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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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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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