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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

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
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight

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