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That which is most personal, is most interesting.

William James

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

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