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That which is most personal, is most interesting.

William James

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

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