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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

William James

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega

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