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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream

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