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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

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