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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

William James

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational

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