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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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