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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

William James

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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
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
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality

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