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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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 world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen

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