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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things

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