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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 emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching

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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