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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self

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