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

William James

What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way

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