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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical

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