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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

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