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William James

The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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Dog Littles Writing
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs

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