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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May

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