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Our beliefs are really rules for action.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May

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