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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

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