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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a un

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! – William James

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved. – William James

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My faith always has been and always will be important to me. – Aretha Franklin

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. – Voltaire

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All is amiss. Love is dying, faiths defying, hearts denying. – Richard Barnfield

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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Anon.

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