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

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering

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