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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

William James

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
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
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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

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