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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational

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