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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
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
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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMES

Fear Happiness Stress

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