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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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