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

William James

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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 teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe People Propaganda
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life

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