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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

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