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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

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