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Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates t

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James

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Our faith is faith in someone elses faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. – William James

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Faith
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William James
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As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! – William James

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Books
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their “agreement,” as falsity means their disagreement, with “reality.” – William James

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Reality
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Hardship is best sailed with a heart ship. – Terri Guillemets

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Adversity

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington

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Adversity

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. – English Proverb

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Adversity

Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. – Mr. Spock, Star Trek

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Adversity

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815

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My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money. – Shia LaBeouf

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Money

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. – Abu Bakr

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God

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. – William J. Brennan, Jr.

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