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

William James

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith

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