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

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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 deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
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
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical

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