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Truth happens to an idea

William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical

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