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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

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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself

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