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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy

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