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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

William James

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

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