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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
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
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
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

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