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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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