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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May

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