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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

William James

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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.
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Men Mind Way
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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

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