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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

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way

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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