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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

William James

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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 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
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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