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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

William James

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear

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