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

William James

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs

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