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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

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