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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

William James

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy

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