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

William James

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test

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