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

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
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 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
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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

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