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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

William James

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

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