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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World

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