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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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