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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

William James

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMES

Affection Alpha Omega
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth

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