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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

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
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men

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