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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

William James

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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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