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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation

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