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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

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