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

William James

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science

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