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

William James

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
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.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

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