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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

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