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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

William James

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

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