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

William James

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
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
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

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