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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

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