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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.

William James

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
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
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
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
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

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