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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

William James

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
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
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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