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

William James

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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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