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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.

William James

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.

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