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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth

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