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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings

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