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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

William James

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism

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