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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

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