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History is a bath of blood.

William James

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
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
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
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success

History is a bath of blood.

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