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

William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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 idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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 strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
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

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