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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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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Political Volunteer War
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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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Culture Life Real
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

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