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Quote by William James
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. – William James

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James

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Happiness
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Our faith is faith in someone elses faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. – William James

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Faith
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James

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Sympathy
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Other Quotes from
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The color of truth is gray. – Andre Gide

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Truth

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie? – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. – Virginia Woolf

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Truth

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. – Voltaire

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Truth

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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. – Luke Ford

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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. – Freeman Dyson

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We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout. – June Carter Cash

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Emotions

In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there. To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Gardens