Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.William James
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
Whenever two men meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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