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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.

William James

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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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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