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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Decision Order Responsibility
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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.
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Art Men Philosophy
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attend Moments Reality

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