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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual

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