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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

William James

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

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