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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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship

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