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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

William James

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
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

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