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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

William James

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

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