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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
[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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude

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