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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

William James

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality

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