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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

William James

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
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

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