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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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