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

William James

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth

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