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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

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows

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