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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
[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
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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