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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
WILLIAM JAMES

Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding

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