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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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