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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

William James

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
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
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
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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States

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