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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.

William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
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
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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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher

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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