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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

History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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 is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth

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

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