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

William James

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
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
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
[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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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