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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will

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