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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World

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