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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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 never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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