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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

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