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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

Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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 difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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