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

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste

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