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

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Leadership Quality Self
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World

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

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