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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

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