A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESCircumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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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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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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