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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall

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