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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

William James

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Extremes Matter
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
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
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind

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