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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

William James

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere

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