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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

William James

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
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 neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

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