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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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 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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

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