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Our beliefs are really rules for action.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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

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