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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
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
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking

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