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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
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
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
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

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