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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

William James

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason

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