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

William James

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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

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