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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men

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