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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

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