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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

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical

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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