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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMES

Humorous Life Philosophical
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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 deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual

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