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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

William James

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs

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