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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James

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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

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