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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

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