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

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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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Mean Reality Truth
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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 deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher

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