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

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet

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

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