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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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 strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

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