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

William James

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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