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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
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
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens 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
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy

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