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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

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