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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

William James

What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound 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
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

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