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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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 power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality

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