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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

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