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" We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. "
William James
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" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "
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" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "
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" Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! "
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" The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. "
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" Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. "
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" To spend life for something which outlasts it. "
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" Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. "
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" The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. "
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" I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. "
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" If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. "
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" No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. "
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" Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. "
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" Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. "
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" Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. "
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" When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. "
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