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

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
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
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men

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