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

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men

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