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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics

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