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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

William James

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

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