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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

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