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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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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Law Science Together
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

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