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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
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

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