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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

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