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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

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