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Truth happens to an idea

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will

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