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William James

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May

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