Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMESYou must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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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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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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