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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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

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