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

William James

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear

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