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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
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
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self

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