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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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