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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
[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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream

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