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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

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant

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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