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Our beliefs are really rules for action.

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
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
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
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth

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