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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

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
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality

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