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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mind Philosophy Quiet
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
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

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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