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

William James

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
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
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud

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