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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person

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