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

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
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
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
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
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
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 first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology

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