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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
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.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched

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