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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

William James

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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 great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
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
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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