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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.

William James

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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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
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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise

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