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

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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 one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
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

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

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