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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men

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