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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
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
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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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

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