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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

William James

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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

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