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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self

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