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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

William James

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.
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Men Mind Way
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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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Destiny Military Spiritual
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural

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