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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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 minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion

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