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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 hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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

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