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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

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
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
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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