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All religions begin with the cry Help.

William James

New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
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
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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

All religions begin with the cry Help.

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