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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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