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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

William James

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
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
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling

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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