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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

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