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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

William James

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

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