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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

Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
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
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom

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