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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude

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