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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

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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 teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
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

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